2015-10-25
Oklahoma Earthquakes Are a National Security Threat - Matthew Philips
Let's Applaud Wesleyan's Student Censors For Honesty - Ken White
"People who respond to student paper content they don't like by trashing the paper to suppress it are thug trash, and it's nice of them to sign a self-identifying petition."
"I like the petition. I like it because the students aren't pretending to be anything but censorious: it's honest."
Gustavus student newspaper's 'Case Day' story gets papers trashed - Kate Maternowski
The Assassination Complex - Jeremy Scahill
"Drones are a tool, not a policy. The policy is assassination."
"During one five-month period of the operation, according to the documents, nearly 90 percent of the people killed in airstrikes were not the intended targets."
Whale Song Explained - David Rothenberg and Mike Deal
Homan Square revealed: how Chicago police 'disappeared' 7,000 people - Spencer Ackerman
"According to an analysis of data disclosed to the Guardian in late September, police allowed lawyers access to Homan Square for only 0.94% of the 7,185 arrests logged over nearly 11 years."
"No contemporaneous public record of someone’s presence at Homan Square is known to exist."
"The warehouse is also unique in not generating public records of someone’s detention there, permitting police to effectively hide detainees from their attorneys."
Getting a full PDF from a DRM-encumbered online textbook - Jonathon Vogel
The Hostile Email Landscape - Jody Ribton